User blog:Biggren/It's Time

The time has come: this community of friends needs to make a comeback.

I happen to know that several are quite active on dA, and are yet not active on here. Why is this so?

The reason seems to stem from the all-apparent fact that we lost some core friends who used to boost morale, create new ideas, and generally make people have more fun than they do now. These people were what kept things going. What happened? They had real-world problems that they had to face, and once they went to the task of dealing with those problems, they never looked back.

Once they left, there came another group of people who began to leave because things "weren't the same" without the core people. Added to this was the distrust and malevolence sown by scurrilous "trolls" who appeared from time to time, like recurring nightmares, to crush the foundation of our friendships. So it began.

Now, two years later, I can count the number of regularly active users on the fingers of both hands. I can count the regularly active users who were here during the "golden age" of the wiki on one hand.

What can I do? Nothing. I can't do a thing without the aid of everyone else. I can't make a community that consists of just me.

What can  we  do? That remains for y o u to decide.

One thing I do know:  We have to talk to each other if we want anything to happen . Sitting back and watching our friendships decay is not going to solve anything. We have to feel like we can do it; if we're depressed and tired and generally feel like we can't do it, then we're  not going to do it at all .

So, there you have it:

If we can decide on a time for a serious meeting of every single person in this community(on Wiki Chat if it is most convenient for everyone), and we actually show up, and we actually discuss things how we should...frankly, I'll be surprised. I'll get the idea that there are still some people left who don't just want to sit around and mutter about the demise of the community until everything is disintegrated. I'll get the idea that there are still some people left with a passion for Redwall.

Here are some suggestions for recovery: